Yu Suzuki

Or the Babaduke.

Also in July of 1985, Sega releases Hang-On by Yu Suzuki and AM2.

It is the first of Sega's super scaler games.

Its motorbike cabinet is controlled using the body, starting a taiken trend of motion-controlled hydraulic cabinets.

How could it not be though? How

could it not be? So to me, if Yu Suzuki had come out and said that Shenmue 3 was a joke, I would forgive it.

Yes! It would explain a lot.

If the point was literally to just, like, confuse and frustrate, that would be the best thing ever.

or Comic Zone.

Oh, we're going Yu Suzuki all day, baby.

Yu

Suzuki all day.

all day.

That's it.

Sega did that? Yeah

... yeah, the only reason HD collection for I even came out was basically Yu Suzuki got asked by enough people, they were like, "Hey, we really wanna play I and II," and Sega was like, "Well, we don't want anything to do with Shenmue III, but we might be able to make a quick buck, and so we'll do an HD collection."

Mm-hmm.

So that's why they ended up putting it out, but it was just so funny because it, like, for me, it was always one of those things where it was like by the time it released, it was like, yeah, the Switch was already out.

And what the Virtua...

Like, this was like, um, Yu Suzuki's stuff, who's quite well known for making, um, Shenmue, and they were kind of in the early '90s with the...

These were arcade games first, and then I believe they got ported later to home consoles.

Right.

To, to be, uh, playing the thing, I, I was like, wow, video games truly are it, you know? And it transported me somewhere.

And I have to say, like, you know, OutRun had already blown my mind, speaking of Yu Suzuki, who is-

Mm

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Oh, really?

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Yu Su- Yeah, yeah, we have mentioned Yu Suzuki a couple of times, um, in talking about obviously the various Model 1, Model 2 games, um, Daytona and such.

But yeah, not specifically, not with OutRun.

Yeah, nice to see.

And obviously there's some other Yu Suzuki classics in the list.

We've got Outrun at £18, Space Harrier at £40.

Outrun 2 is at 49 and Virtua Fighter the original game I assume is at number 80 so yeah fantastic to see a lot of good representation from not only Shenmue but Yu Suzuki's other works another article that featured Shenmue recently this one's new to me but I think it is because it is a new online video games

website i guess but yeah

it comes from our old friend matthew reynolds who used to work for was it euro gamer back yeah it

And I guess he's better known for working on some major anime titles like Fullmetal Alchemist, internationally popular Code Geass.

I've not heard of actually, but I know Fullmetal Alchemist and some of the projects that I think he's worked on before in the past.

Yeah, yeah.

Shenmue is sort of the mascot of the Dreamcast in some ways because it was, I think it was Yu Suzuki who was the person behind it.

But regardless, it was like Sega's white whale.

Like this is going to be our big game.

What am I gonna complain about? I can think of a number of games that went and did a slight change or something that I would consider a slight change, and then said, "Hey, why don't you buy the game again?" Whatever.

You, Suzuki, you bastard, and that dumpster pile that is Shenmue 3.

Still upset that I Kickstarted that game.

And regardless of whether you Kickstarted it or were a regular purchaser, everyone got that shiny 10% discount to spin the wheel again and buy whatever the enhanced edition.